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Optimal Battery Sizing for Electric Truck Delivery by Baek, Donkyu; Chen, Yukai; Chang, Naehyuck; Macii, Enrico; Poncino, Massimo is a Engineering article available to read on EtoBox.

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Finding the cost-optimal battery size in the context of parcel delivery with Electric Vehicles (EVs) requires solving a tradeoff between using the largest possible battery (so as to maximize the number of deliveries over a given time) and the relative costs (initial investment plus the unnecessary increase of the truck weight during delivery). In this paper, we propose a framework for the optimal battery sizing for parcel delivery with an electric truck; we implement an electric truck simulator including a nonlinear battery model to evaluate revenue, battery cost, charging cost, and overall profit for annual delivery. Our framework finds the cost-optimal battery size for different parcel weight distributions and customer location distributions. We analyze the effect of battery sizing on the profit, which is up to 56%.

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Author

Baek, Donkyu; Chen, Yukai; Chang, Naehyuck; Macii, Enrico; Poncino, Massimo

Publisher

MDPI AG; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI); Basel: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI), 2008- (ISSN 1996-1073)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)